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Coming Up: Benchmarks Of GNU Hurd

Phoronix: Coming Up: Benchmarks Of GNU Hurd

At Phoronix we benchmark Linux, obviously, but of course we also run some tests of Mac OS X, the *BSDs, Solaris and the OpenSolaris-derived distributions, and even Microsoft Windows when doing a hardware/driver comparison to other platforms. It's the platforms that are supported by the Phoronix Test Suite, and with better mobile device support coming, we'll be delivering Phoronix.com benchmarks there too. But there's yet another new platform target with Lillesand: GNU Hurd. Yes, we have benchmarks running now even under GNU Hurd...

Yeah the power management from you host OS can mess up all your numbers ... I saw this when running Haiku which you could also add its a hybrid monolithic kernel unlike Minux and Hurd

Haiku's newer hardware support is advancing pretty fast too... they have a "get it working" mentality unlike HURD guys and they do a good job of gettting it working too.

MICHAEL! WHEN YOU DO I/O INTENSIVE TESTS ON HAIKU... DO IT ON A PARTITION WITH QUERYS DISABLED!

The querys are only useful for media which Haiku rocks at handling and the files don't change much but when you do development you should do it on a drive that had querys disabled for improved filesystem speed as it doesn't have to update the querys synchronously.

All that said HURD is pretty interesting and cool IMO even if development is quite slow I have been watching it for a few years myself

Plan9/APE

Plan9 with php compiled under APE would be another interesting target. Since php seems to be pretty portable and is only C (no C++) as far as I have understood, it might be possible to get up there.
I once tried to get it compiled under APE (in a 9vx environment), but I failed (mostly because I am such a noob on Plan9)

I think I'll voice my opinion on this one as well... forget the VM, those results are pointless. Find some hardware that it *will* run on, and do *BOTH* Linux *AND* Hurd on that same hardware.

Not that benchmarks matter to begin with (everything is so close that the minor differences are easily ignored), but if you really do insist on benchmarking, at least do it in a way that the numbers will actually make sense.

GNU Hurd has a really unique architecture that's going to take a long time for the conventional computer market to understand and grow around. The concepts of "applications" and "drivers" are totally different and it's going to take time for developers to wrap their heads around these new ways of doing things.

As far as the "for serious" part goes, it is ALREADY being used for "serious" thinking about what it means to have a secure operating system, and to most people that is a far more "serious" application than "does it run Firefox"

I think I'll voice my opinion on this one as well... forget the VM, those results are pointless. Find some hardware that it *will* run on, and do *BOTH* Linux *AND* Hurd on that same hardware.

Not that benchmarks matter to begin with (everything is so close that the minor differences are easily ignored), but if you really do insist on benchmarking, at least do it in a way that the numbers will actually make sense.

If I had to guess, he's just doing testing and fixing of PTS under a VM instead of a physical box.